Goal and Aspect-oriented Business Process Engineering (GAoBPE)

业务流程是一组相关的结构化活动，有助于实现一个或多个利益相关者的特定目标。如今，在电子商务、电子健康和电子政务等不同领域，许多此类活动和流程都实现了自动化。典型的例子包括税务报告或贷款申请的处理，心脏病患者的临床治疗，以及大学生的入学。业务流程不再仅仅是设计、实现和测试；它们现在完全是通过其他建模、监控和管理活动来“设计”的。尽管与业务流程相关的研究、工具和方法在过去十年中已经非常成熟，但他们往往对流程有狭隘的看法，没有适当考虑与利益相关者目标的一致性和适当的关注点分离。软件工程领域的最新发展可以在这方面有所帮助：目标建模是确保软件和过程与其目标保持一致的常见方法，而面向方面的建模促进了高级模块化和重用。这项研究的主要目标是发展基于标准的语言(如用户需求表示法)、方法和工具，以便以一种利用目标一致性和面向方面的模块化的方式来设计业务流程。这些过程甚至将根据利益相关者的目标进行监测，以便自动适应其环境。结合业务流程工程的目标、流程、指标和方面的方法的好处和局限性将在不同的环境中进行评估，从医疗保健临床流程到法规遵从性。这项研究将使医疗保健、金融和政府组织受益，因为它们的业务流程和目标正变得越来越形式化和受到监控，并且使流程自动适应不断变化的环境将提高这些组织的质量和竞争力。软件顾问和工具供应商也将能够将结果纳入他们的服务和产品。

A business process is a collection of related, structured activities that help achieve particular goals of one or many stakeholders. Many of these activities and processes are nowadays being automated in various domains such as e-commerce, e-health, and e-government. Typical examples include the processing of tax reports or of loan requests, the clinical treatment of cardiac patients, and the admission of university students. Business processes are no longer just being designed, implemented and tested; they are now fully "engineered" with additional modelling, monitoring, and management activities. Although research, tools, and methodologies related to business processes have acquired much maturity in the past decade, they often have a narrow view of processes without proper consideration for alignment with stakeholder objectives and for proper separation of concerns. Recent developments in the software engineering domain can help here: goal modelling is a common approach for ensuring that software and processes are aligned with their objectives, whereas aspect-oriented modelling promotes advanced modularity and reuse. The main objective of this research is to evolve standard-based languages (such as the User Requirements Notation), methodologies and tools for the engineering of business processes in a way that exploits goal alignment and aspect-oriented modularization. These processes will even be monitored against stakeholder objectives in such a way as to adapt automatically to their environment. The benefits and limitations of an approach that combines goals, processes, indicators and aspects for business process engineering will be evaluated in different contexts, from healthcare clinical processes to regulatory compliance. This research will benefit healthcare, financial, and governmental organizations as their business processes and objectives are becoming increasingly formalized and monitored, and having processes adapt automatically to changing contexts will improve the quality and competitiveness of these organizations. Software consultants and tool vendors will also be able to incorporate the results in their services and products.